Alright... been thinking/planning my next build. My 2600K is getting older now and I will donate it to my son...

I've decided, after going back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, to give AMD another shot. I know intel runs cooler, cheaper and outperforms AMD in most, if not all ways for their higher-end chips and even some categories in their mid-range chips but I still have a soft spot for AMD despite the fact that they don't seem to be moving forward very well lately. I think the FX-8350 (barely) outperforms my 2600K so I think I won't be disappointed. Anyway, here it is:

Not cheap... but with an SSD (huge upgrade to me) even if the 8350 isn't as fast as an I7, my system will feel supreme to me. With all the RAM I can have a ramdisk, should I desire it, but it will also be handy for me when running multiple web servers (JBOSS and others) at the same time... I know that much RAM is overkill but... why not. My current build has lasted 2 years easily. I don't see why a build with an SSD shouldn't last even longer.

I am contemplating adding an additional drive for "junk"... low power green drive... and another plextor external DVD drive (because the case has no drive and I would be giving it to my son - my computer is held up near the ceiling so it was awkward to insert/remove DVDs in an internal drive).

As you stated the ram is overkill but if your willing to pay for it like you said why not lol. 1600Mhz is fast enough you won't even bottleneck anything to really notice the 1866 even if you got it. The 8350FX super fast sure not as quick as the i7 but in all seriousness unless your benchmarking or doing some sort of modeling/encoding you won't tell the difference. I went air cooled on his rig seeing as how it was already a HAF 932 airflow wasn't a real problem, but I did suggest he purchase a coolermaster hyper n 520 over the stock heatsink if he chose to OC in the future. Temps under these current conditions